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Lords of Serendipity

Name: Lords of Serendipity
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780349148953
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By Randy Boyagoda

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‘As moving as it is hysterically funny’ Gary Shteyngart, author of Vera, or Faith ‘Tender, eviscerating, perfect’ Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ‘Sparkling, humane and irresistible’ Garth Risk Hallberg, author of City on Fire Devi is a Sri... Read More

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Thousands of miles apart from each other, two talented girls have the same dream: a university education. But is it worth it?

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‘As moving as it is hysterically funny’ Gary Shteyngart, author of Vera, or Faith

‘Tender, eviscerating, perfect’ Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

‘Sparkling, humane and irresistible’ Garth Risk Hallberg, author of City on Fire

Devi is a Sri Lankan village girl who dreams of going to Harvard. Devi's father cleans toilets in a five-star hotel to pay for his daughter to be tutored by a dapper young Indian man—who might not be the Oxford scholar he claims to be on Whatsapp...

Katrina is a middle-class American girl whose life has been designed to get her into an elite liberal arts college. Katrina's father teaches extra courses at a mediocre technical university to pay for his daughter's academic experiences. Meanwhile, his tech bro TA expertly extorts money from international students terrified of flunking out and being deported...

Set between contemporary Sri Lanka and the United States, Lords of Serendipity is a global campus novel for the 21st century, a funny, moving, and sharply observed story about dreams and ambition meeting corruption and hypocrisy, about strivers and hustlers, and the lengths parents will go to for their children.

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ISBN: 9780349148953

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 September 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Abacus

Audience: General / adult

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Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 352

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About the Author

Randy Boyagoda is a writer and professor of English at the University of Toronto. He writes regularly for publications including the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Financial Times and the Times Literary Supplement, and his fiction has been nominated for the Giller Prize and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize.